Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁman ˈbʁuːno ˈɔto ˈbluːmənaʊ̯] ; December 26, 1819 – October 30, 1899) was a German pharmacist who founded the city of Blumenau , situated in the Itajaí-Açu river valley in the state of Santa Catarina , Brazil .
6-675: Blumenau was a son of a forest administrator, born in Hasselfelde , Duchy of Brunswick (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt ). Between 1832 and 1836 he attended the secondary school in Braunschweig , but left school to become a pharmacist. From 1840 to 1841 he worked in a pharmacy in Hasselfelde. He later worked in a pharmacy in Erfurt , where he met Alexander Humboldt and Justus von Liebig . Soon after, Blumenau visited London with
12-619: Is a town in the district of Harz , in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . It is in the eastern Harz , approximately 17 km south of Wernigerode . Since 1 January 2010 it has been part of the town of Oberharz am Brocken . Its population is 1,941 (2021). The town has a railway station on the Selke Valley Railway , part of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB). Along the road leading to Blankenburg
18-630: Is the Harzköhlerei Stemberghaus . This is an open-air museum that produces charcoal in the traditional way. The site includes a restaurant, the Köhlerhütte , built in 2012, and a souvenir shop. The museum is checkpoint 60 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. The historical building of the train station can be visited (outside only) and is currently owned by a local software company named RR Software. After
24-836: The colony Blumenau . After the Brazilian government took control of the growing village in 1860, he remained as the first official director. Blumenau founded schools and hospitals in his growing city, and by 1880 its population totaled approximately 15,000 people, most of whom were Germans . This population has managed to preserve its German heritage and, even today, German schools still prevail. In 1884, Blumenau returned to Braunschweig , Germany, with his wife (whom he had married in 1867) and their three sons. He died on October 30, 1899, in Braunschweig. His body rests at Braunschweig Main Cemetery . Hasselfelde Hasselfelde
30-686: The Consul-General of Brazil, Johann Jakob Sturz , and decided to emigrate . He studied chemistry at the University of Erlangen from 1844 until 1846, when he received his doctorate . Between 1846 and 1848 he travelled in southern Brazil for the Hamburg colonial society. He claimed about 200 km² of forest in the province of Santa Catarina . After two years in Germany, he returned to Brazil in 1850 with 17 German colonists and established
36-498: The purchase, the train station was renovated by the company in recent years. The outside of the building remained historically correct with a refurbished wooden structure, typical for buildings in the region. A memorial stone dedicated "to those who suffered and lost their lives in wars and under terror and violence" is located in the northwest corner of the central town square. During socialist rule in East Germany this stone had
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